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Reaves didn’t participate in practice Saturday but Collin Sexton was a full participant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
Asked about Farage expensing the party, a spokesperson for Reform UK told the Guardian: "As a standard practice, we do not comment on security matters."
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
The extraordinary concentration of graves led Petrie to propose that the people buried alongside the kings were victims of a practice known as retainer sacrifice.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
“There’s no single playbook,” said James Citrin, head of global CEO practice at executive-recruiting firm Spencer Stuart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Unless they were using him as target practice, they didn’t want to be associated with their foster brother, and that was all right with Danny.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Megaspeed said it hired a “leading U.S. law firm” to lead a comprehensive census of its graphics processing units and independently verify its export control compliance practices.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
Clayton Colmon, director of curriculum design for online learning at University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences, studies how emergent technologies influence traditional practices of writing and research.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
The EU already has a raft of laws covering data protection, artificial intelligence and online content but Brussels and campaigners argue there are gaps that leave consumers exposed to harmful digital practices.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
Regarding Epstein's death in a New York prison, investigators concluded this was a result of "a series of institutional failures at the facility," which included staffing shortages, overworked employees, poor recordkeeping, and lax security practices.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Such practices, however, she kept from her young prentice, and as far as she was able she taught him honest craft.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Lakers forward Adou Thiero, who has been out with a left knee injury, practiced with the Coachella Valley Lakers on Wednesday and came out of well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
A graduate of Widener University Commonwealth Law School, she practiced law at her first husband’s firm and served as general counsel for a parking garage company owned by her second husband.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
Williams practiced fully Thursday after missing the last three games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Yet it’s an often preached theme that would, most of the time, be better off simply practiced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
She was practiced at putting on an identity and then putting on another.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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Snider has been practicing with his sugar pump, a tool used to inflate the ingredient into what will be the display’s centerpiece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Believers mix and match traditions, from magic and reincarnation to indigenous rituals, practicing faith on their own terms, becoming what Matthew Blanton, a sociologist at the University of Texas at Austin, calls “religious entrepreneurs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Raman forgot most of it while attending Harvard and MIT but started practicing with her brother, a Spanish major at UCLA, when she moved to L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
But the 41-year-old acknowledged Thursday she had failed the bar exam, a prerequisite for practicing law in the United States.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Soon the young fighter pilots at Engels were practicing shooting at targets and working on aerobatic loops and rolls.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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